Melbourne tech guru Mike Sentonas at centre of global IT outage

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Melbourne man and Edith Cowan University graduate, Mike Sentonas has found himself caught in the middle of a global tech outage that sent chaos rippling around the world.

Mr Sentonas has had a long standing career in cybersecurity and is a key player in the Silicon Valley tech industry. He became the president of tech giant Crowdstrike in 2023.

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CrowdStrike caused a global outage on Friday, July 19.

The tech company experienced issues with one of their security updates that cause a worldwide outage on Friday, July 19.

The outage halted and in some cases, forced the closure of, business and government operations. These operations included banks, casinos, media companies and airlines.

Source: The Daily Telegraph.

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